Saturday, September 22, 2012

Biological Information – the Signature of Life

There is a growing awareness that information is the unique
non-material force which makes life possible. This growing awareness
comes as we are discovery the labyrinth of informational networks in
even the simplest cells. This cellular network is similar to today's
Internet.

There is rapidly growing evidence that the principles of
information run parallel to the laws of thermodynamics. The first law
of thermodynamics essentially says that matter and energy cannot just
arise from nothing. This is also true of information - it does not
arise spontaneously from matter, it only arise through the operation
of intelligence. The second law of thermodynamics essentially says
that useful things always degenerate into useless things, apart from
intelligent intervention. This is also true of information - apart from
intelligent intervention, information always degenerates. All this
strongly indicates that the biological information networks within cells
and organisms must have been intelligently designed, but should now
be decaying. This growing new consensus provides astounding
affirmation of the Biblical view of reality - that is a recent and
miraculous creation, a fallen and dying world, and a profound need for
a Saviour.

Dr John Sanford, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin)

Biography

Dr John Sanford, A Cornell University Professor for more than 25 years, John has
been semi-retired since 1998. His Ph.D. was in plant breeding and plant genetics.
While a professor at Cornell, John has trained graduate students and conducted genetic
research at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, NY. During
this time, John bred new crop varieties using conventional breeding and then became
heavily involved in the newly-emerging field of plant genetic engineering. John
has published over 80 scientific publications and has been granted over 30 patents.
His most significant scientific contributions involve three inventions, the biolistic
(“gene gun”) process, pathogen-derived resistance, and genetic immunization.
A large fraction of the transgenic crops (in terms of numbers and acreage) grown
in the world today were genetically engineered using the gene gun technology developed
by John and his collaborators. John also started two biotech enterprises derived
from his research, Biolistics, Inc., and Sanford Scientific, Inc. John still holds
a position at Cornell (Courtesy Associate Professor), but has largely retired from
Cornell and has started a small non-profit organization, Feed My Sheep Foundation.

A scientific convert to six-day creation, his groundbreaking new book Genetic Entropy and the Mystery of the Genome demonstrates
why human DNA is inexorably deteriorating at an alarming rate, thus cannot be millions
of years old.